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The Catalina Island Musuem, located in the 1929 Casino Building, had some great info on the Grand Prix, including this information sheet!
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The pre-race crowd! Wow, what a gathering!
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Here's a portion of the uphill course. As you can read, the GP race brought 7,000 spectators; insane!
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What goes up must come down!
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Fulton taking the corner. Notice the high pipes and sprung hub!
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Taking the checkers!
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Though this picture is unrelated its from the 50s and kind of fits; who know as she could have been a trophy girl too. Nice pin-up shot with girl holding flying fish from a Catalina store!
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The trophy girls?
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This is probably where you'd eat in Avalon during the 50s. Again its unrelated but I dig the swordfish sign and lettering!